Agalinis pulchella |
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beautiful false foxglove, purple gerardia, St. Mark's false foxglove |
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Stems | branched, 50–120 cm; branches spreading-ascending, quadrangular-ridged, scabrous. |
Leaves | spreading-ascending; blade filiform, 16–40 x 0.4–1 mm, margins entire, midvein harshly scabrous, adaxial surface scabrous; axillary fascicles: length 1/2–1 times subtending leaves. |
Inflorescences | racemiform-paniculiform, flowers 1 per node, some flowers pseudoterminal; bracts shorter than pedicels. |
Pedicels | spreading-ascending, 12–50 mm, scabrous. |
Flowers | calyx hemispheric, tube 3–4(–5) mm, glaucous, lobes erect, subulate, 0.1–0.6 mm; corolla dark pink to rose, with 2 yellow lines and purple spots in abaxial throat, 22–33 mm, throat sparsely pilose externally and glabrous within across bases of adaxial lobes, sparsely villous at sinus, lobes: abaxial reflexed-spreading, adaxial spreading, 6–12 mm, equal, glabrous externally; proximal anthers parallel to filaments, distal perpendicular to filaments, pollen sacs 2.5–3.8 mm; style strongly exserted, 9–18 mm. |
Capsules | globular, 4–6 mm. |
Seeds | black, 0.5–0.8 mm. |
2n | = 26. |
Agalinis pulchella |
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Phenology | Flowering Sep–early Oct. |
Habitat | Dry, open pine savannas, open pine-oak sandhills, dry upslope areas of wiregrass-dominated mesic prairies, chalky glades or roadsides, dry sandy or clay roadsides beside existing or remnant savannas. |
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; TX
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Discussion | Agalinis pulchella is an uncommon species in the easternmost area of its range and is common only westward in southeastern Texas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 551. |
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Agalinis |
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Synonyms | Gerardia pulcherrima |
Name authority | Pennell: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 40: 428. (1913) |
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